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...other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap $late: In Today's 'In Today's Papers' | 3/25/1998 | See Source »

...their first year and who now must introduce (or avoid introducing) a girlfriend, or those who risk their parents' misinterpretation of a friend who is really just a friend or a fling who is really just a fling, or those who would simply prefer to do without their parents' impromptu advice about which of various passers-by they should...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Here Come the Parents | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...impromptu speech to a crowd of supportersafter the meeting, Triantafillou expressed shock...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duehay Elected Mayor in Bizarre Vote | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...team led by former U.S. Marine captain and Gulf War veteran Scott Ritter, it may just have handed his home country a hero on a plate. Ritter, derided in the Iraqi press as a "hyena" and CIA spy, made the most of his 15 minutes of fame with an impromptu press conference outside the U.N. compound in Baghdad. The refusal to provide escorts, he said, amounted to "a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligation to carry out the provisions of Security Council resolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Stops U.N. Inspectors | 1/13/1998 | See Source »

...their products by enclosing pornographic pictures. (The controls can also be set to keep kids away from certain Websites; to keep them out of AOL's private chat rooms, where sexual talk is not uncommon; and to prevent the sending and receiving of "instant messages," a kind of impromptu E-mail that members use to approach each other directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICA ONLINE'S LITTLE PROBLEM | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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